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Originally Posted by Hollow Man
He has so many stories, thus it's impossible to narrow them down to a few to fit in a "best of" collection, and please everyone. I'm sure more collections will be forthcoming if this book sells well.
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Sure, but most "best of" collections are usually understood to mean "most well-known" or "most popular", unless the anthologist has their own specific reasoning for choosing this one or that. If you had a "Greatest Hits" album for a band that was missing its objectively highest-charting single, you would find that a curious omission.
We might charitably assume that J. Michael Straczynski did not include "A Boy and His Dog" in the collection because maybe he
can't--that the rights to it are held by some other publisher. But given Ellison's lifelong advocacy for authors' rights, residuals, etc., I would also find that
very unusual that his estate didn't own the rights to arguably his most famous work.
I suspect the more likely scenario (as bolstered by the other user's comment that you can't find AB&HD available
anywhere at the moment) is that Straczynski is intentionally holding it back because he is planning to release a new edition of
The Complete Adventures of a Boy and His Dog,
Vic and Blood, or
Blood's a Rover soon, and wants the story in that anthology instead.